Office of Management and Budget Clearance

O*NET Data Collection

On September 30, 2015, OMB approved a three-year extension of the O*NET Data Collection effort. In 2014, the O*NET project sought OMB approval for this extension. As part of the clearance process, public comments were sought on the data collection. A Federal Register Notice, published on November 26, 2014, announced the availability to the public of the O*NET "Information Collection Request" (ICR). A second Federal Register Notice, published on June 17, 2015, announced an additional comment period which concluded on July 30, 2015.

Previous OMB Clearance Packages

Data Publication Schedule

The O*NET 21.1 database represents the most recent update resulting from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved data collection program. This database release includes an update of 116 occupations from job incumbent and occupational expert sources. The schedule below provides both past and targeted publication dates, along with the numbers of occupations scheduled for update during each release period.

1 The number of occupations refers to those updated by the job incumbent and occupational expert sources. Additional occupations may have subsets of their data updated by alternative sources (e.g., analyst ratings, transactional data) at different dates than those listed above.

2 Legislators (11-1031.00) and Mathematical Technicians (15-2091.00) will not be updated by job incumbents or occupational expert sources.

Occupational Code Assignment

On August 3, 2016, OMB approved a three-year extension of the Occupational Code Assignment (OCA) process. In 2015, the Department of Labor sought OMB approval for this extension. A Federal Register Notice, published on May 12, 2016, announced the submission for OMB review and a comment request on the "Information Collection Request" (ICR), downloadable below in PDF format. The public comment period concluded on June 13, 2016.